Improvement in coal-baskets



UNITED STATES PATENT-OEEICE.

CHARLES HAGER, '01j1 WATER/DOWN, ASSIGNOR TO ALBERT H. BULLARD,

' OF LEWIS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COAL-BASKETS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,913, dated July 18, 1876 application tiled June 6, 1876.

l'o all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES HAGER, ot'

V' Wvatertown, Jeii'erson county, New York, have invented a new and Improved Coal-Basket, ol" which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in constructing a portion ofeach end ota coal-basket ot'sheet metal, and in the substitution thereof for a portion ot' the splints ot which these baskets are now made, the object being to make those parts which are subject to most wear and are eX- posed to the tire, and thus liable to burn out when the baskets are used for feeding furnaces, more durable, and it also makes them freer to discharge the coa-l, as it slides off the metal easier than from the wooden splints.

Figure lis a longitudinal sectional elevation ot' my improved coal-basket, taken on line x, Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents sheet-metal end portions, which I propose to substitute for similar portions ot' the wooden splints B, as above. stated, making the splint portions as much shorter, and connecting the ends of the sameto the metal p0rtions, which may be done by using two sheets` of metal, and extending the main ribs a of thel splint-work between them, and fastening the metal sheets together between the ribs by rivets c. The metal sheets will be fastened to the top frame d by the metal strips or clips c, or in any other approved way.

The common baskets give out in these parts by wear, or by burning out when the baskets are used for feeding tires, while the other parts are still good, making a considerable amount of waste, which is avoided by my improvement, which makes the basket as durable in that part as in any other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a new article ot' manufacture, a coalbasket of which the body portion ismade of splints, B, and the ends ot' sheet metal, A, substantially' as specilied. y

' CHARLES HAGER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. EARL, E.NoRTH. 

